Equipment manufacturers

Komori has revised its sales and profit forecasts for both the half- and full-year, with sales recovering but the availability of components and materials crimping the group’s ability to deliver.

HP has added new feeding enhancments to its PageWide C500 Press to improve converters’ operating profit and reduce waste.

Konica Minolta has a ¥6bn (£38.6m) order backlog at its Professional Print division because of the current hiatus in toner manufacturing – but the group said the toner supply shortage was “expected to...

Koenig & Bauer has filed a big increase in orders in Q3, stating that “customers’ spending reticence is beginning to fade in many areas”.

Roland DG has updated its machine monitoring app, Roland DG Connect, to boost functionality and expand the portfolio of printers it can manage.

Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer is to step down at the end of the financial year, and will be succeeded by another industry outsider – a long-standing Zeiss executive – in April 2022.

This past year has accelerated change affecting the printing industry. Quadient’s Sof Tsigarides explores driving new revenue streams, enabling production efficiencies and growing existing business.

Xaar shareholders have approved the firm’s plans to sell its stake in 3D printing business Xaar 3D.

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Former Watkiss Automation chairman and post-press innovator Chris Watkiss has died aged 89.

Konica Minolta has corrected the statement it issued yesterday and it’s better news for customers regarding the planned restart date at its Tatsuno toner factory.